Susannah Walker
@susannahwalker.bsky.social
Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.
Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com
Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com
Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
Pinned
In response to my rant yesterday, I was asked how we can make better parks and other public places for teenage girls? What do they want? I have answers to this, so now a positive 🧵.
Starting in Sweden, where this was co-designed by teenage girls.
Starting in Sweden, where this was co-designed by teenage girls.
Please RT and share as well as hassling your MP, and also paging @gideonamos.bsky.social @peterwalker99.bsky.social @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Please RT and share as well as hassling your MP, and also paging @gideonamos.bsky.social @peterwalker99.bsky.social @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
Sorry could not fit all letter into alt text, tell me if you want a copy and I will send it
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Sorry could not fit all letter into alt text, tell me if you want a copy and I will send it
I am campaigning about this, along with many others and my excellent local MP Anna Sabine (sadly not on here yet) has written a letter to the relevant ministers.
Even if you don't feel able to talk about planning or respond to the NPPF, could your MP write something too?
Even if you don't feel able to talk about planning or respond to the NPPF, could your MP write something too?
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I am campaigning about this, along with many others and my excellent local MP Anna Sabine (sadly not on here yet) has written a letter to the relevant ministers.
Even if you don't feel able to talk about planning or respond to the NPPF, could your MP write something too?
Even if you don't feel able to talk about planning or respond to the NPPF, could your MP write something too?
Guess what is in the new draft NPPF? Exactly nothing. At the moment the document doesn't include the word woman, women or gender once. It is a prime example of default male thinking, but also of how government isn't even talking to itself when it makes these recommendations.
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Guess what is in the new draft NPPF? Exactly nothing. At the moment the document doesn't include the word woman, women or gender once. It is a prime example of default male thinking, but also of how government isn't even talking to itself when it makes these recommendations.
Just a couple of weeks earlier, and still in December, the second part of the Angiolini inquiry into the Sarah Everard case was published. This too recommended that national planning and design policy should consider VAWG and it even singled out the NPPF.
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Just a couple of weeks earlier, and still in December, the second part of the Angiolini inquiry into the Sarah Everard case was published. This too recommended that national planning and design policy should consider VAWG and it even singled out the NPPF.
The NPPF was published in December 2025. Two days earlier, the government's shiny new guidance on Violence against Women and Girls, which said that public realm policy should include women's safety as a priority.
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
The NPPF was published in December 2025. Two days earlier, the government's shiny new guidance on Violence against Women and Girls, which said that public realm policy should include women's safety as a priority.
Things I do, in real time.
Right now I am campaigning about the new National Policy Planning Framework - but hold on a minute, this does affect you.
One of the things it does is set out how our public spaces are designed - and who they are designed for.
Illustration below is a spoiler, from Sweden.
Right now I am campaigning about the new National Policy Planning Framework - but hold on a minute, this does affect you.
One of the things it does is set out how our public spaces are designed - and who they are designed for.
Illustration below is a spoiler, from Sweden.
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Things I do, in real time.
Right now I am campaigning about the new National Policy Planning Framework - but hold on a minute, this does affect you.
One of the things it does is set out how our public spaces are designed - and who they are designed for.
Illustration below is a spoiler, from Sweden.
Right now I am campaigning about the new National Policy Planning Framework - but hold on a minute, this does affect you.
One of the things it does is set out how our public spaces are designed - and who they are designed for.
Illustration below is a spoiler, from Sweden.
Ta. Setting up a work account is - as you can probably tell - one of those admin tasks that I am not wild about starting because then I have to do more work to keep it going
January 13, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Ta. Setting up a work account is - as you can probably tell - one of those admin tasks that I am not wild about starting because then I have to do more work to keep it going
was this person by any chance male?
January 13, 2026 at 2:12 PM
was this person by any chance male?
For those of you who run multiple accounts on here (personal/work/whatever rather than sock puppetry) what's the best tool for doing this? I need to set up a work account but can't quite face it....
please have a #cat in thanks for your time reading this
please have a #cat in thanks for your time reading this
January 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
For those of you who run multiple accounts on here (personal/work/whatever rather than sock puppetry) what's the best tool for doing this? I need to set up a work account but can't quite face it....
please have a #cat in thanks for your time reading this
please have a #cat in thanks for your time reading this
We are not allowed to be a pub.
January 13, 2026 at 12:48 PM
We are not allowed to be a pub.
All bundled up with a blinkered male privilege which fails to see what the problem is for other people.
January 13, 2026 at 9:28 AM
All bundled up with a blinkered male privilege which fails to see what the problem is for other people.
They were certainly influenced by slightly later sculptures - John Piper spent a lot of time photographing Anglo Saxon fonts, for example.
January 13, 2026 at 9:27 AM
They were certainly influenced by slightly later sculptures - John Piper spent a lot of time photographing Anglo Saxon fonts, for example.
Stratton on the Fosse is the town on the Roman road on the Roman Road
January 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Stratton on the Fosse is the town on the Roman road on the Roman Road
Reposted by Susannah Walker
Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.
“Why can’t we have any regulations for US tech in Britain?”
Because the US trade rep has gone to every country including Britain and said if we regulate tech in a way that favours our people, industries and national interests, the US will bury us in tariffs and ruin our economy.
Because the US trade rep has gone to every country including Britain and said if we regulate tech in a way that favours our people, industries and national interests, the US will bury us in tariffs and ruin our economy.
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.
Hard agree there. I never managed to last more than five months in development without coming close to a nervous breakdown.
January 12, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Hard agree there. I never managed to last more than five months in development without coming close to a nervous breakdown.
Ha! Yes, sorry to hear that. I'm now working directly with smaller publishers and am - despite the Unbound debacle - much happier.
January 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Ha! Yes, sorry to hear that. I'm now working directly with smaller publishers and am - despite the Unbound debacle - much happier.
It's just the same in television, only with even fewer gatekeepers. No one knows why some programmes are successful and others not and decision making is basically on a whim.
[I am still bitter about creating a fantastic archaeology show pilot, rejected for having 'too many people digging in holes'.
[I am still bitter about creating a fantastic archaeology show pilot, rejected for having 'too many people digging in holes'.
January 12, 2026 at 10:45 AM
It's just the same in television, only with even fewer gatekeepers. No one knows why some programmes are successful and others not and decision making is basically on a whim.
[I am still bitter about creating a fantastic archaeology show pilot, rejected for having 'too many people digging in holes'.
[I am still bitter about creating a fantastic archaeology show pilot, rejected for having 'too many people digging in holes'.
Reposted by Susannah Walker
Kemi, this is just a population density map
January 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Kemi, this is just a population density map
Shepton Mallet wasn’t *that* bad even twenty years ago. Then they build the out of town Tesco.
Also, try Basildon
Also, try Basildon
January 11, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Shepton Mallet wasn’t *that* bad even twenty years ago. Then they build the out of town Tesco.
Also, try Basildon
Also, try Basildon
No but all the plans were drawn up in the years before the war, which is one of the reasons that the rebuilding could happen so quickly.
Wasn’t just Coventry either
Wasn’t just Coventry either
January 11, 2026 at 10:54 PM
No but all the plans were drawn up in the years before the war, which is one of the reasons that the rebuilding could happen so quickly.
Wasn’t just Coventry either
Wasn’t just Coventry either
Reposted by Susannah Walker
In other news, with an annual profit of £800,000 and fewer than 100 employees Twitter UK is about as significant economically as a single large Tesco Extra.
January 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM
In other news, with an annual profit of £800,000 and fewer than 100 employees Twitter UK is about as significant economically as a single large Tesco Extra.
Reposted by Susannah Walker
Meanwhile, over on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@mhoye/11586...
January 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Meanwhile, over on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@mhoye/11586...
I have a friend whose father was Polish and can confirm that threatening Aperols are very much a thing
January 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM
I have a friend whose father was Polish and can confirm that threatening Aperols are very much a thing